Disclaimer: I don't own either the Dr who or the song featured in this fic, if I did would I really need to post on here?

AU in that Rose never got stuck in the parallel universe, she was able to hold on until the rift closed

Please R & R.

"AAAAARRRGH!" Rose shot up hearing the scream. Looking to her alarm clock she saw it was only 1:30 in the morning.
"ROOOSEE!" Hearing the doctor screaming her name like that she threw the covers of her bed off and rushed out her room across to the Doctor's room, silently thanking the TARDIS for opening the door as she ran towards it.
Running into the room she looked at the Doctor tossing and turning on his bed tears streaming down his face whilst gasping words out.
"No . . . Rose . . . Not . . . NOO!"
The anguish in his voice spurred her on, without caring whether he might hit her with his flailing or not she ran to his bedside.
Stroking his face with her fingers she softly spoke. "Doctor come on its ok, I'm here." Her words seemed to calm him in his sleep even though he didn't awaken, deciding for the night not to leave him should he need her again she lifted the comforter and slipped in behind him to him, wrapping her arm around him, holding him close.
"Rose . . . don't . . . no . . ." he mumbled, she realised he was still in his nightmare but didn't want to wake him so she started singing.

"And in your eyes I see ribbons of colour
I see us inside of each other
I feel my unconscious merge with yours
And I hear a voice say, "What's his is hers""

He seemed to settle at the musical sound of her voice, rolling onto his back as if to get closer to her in his sleep, closer to the peaceful sound she was trying to create without music.

"I'm falling into you
This dream could come true
And it feels so good falling into you"

She decided to sing with all her emotions, let him know even if he wasn't awake to register, she would take this time to comfort his dreams and tell him how much he meant to her. Knowing that he wouldn't remember this but at least she would know, she had said it to him.

"I was afraid to let you in here
Now I have learned love can't be made in to fear
The walls begin to tumble down
And I can't even see the ground"

The Doctor shifted in his sleep again, a slight frown upon his face. Rose drew her fingers across his brow holding herself up on one arm to look down at him, his perpetually messy brown hair, her fingers trailed from his brow to stroke down his sideburn, still she sang, trying to drive the nightmare away.

"I'm falling into you
This dream could come true
And it feels so good falling into you
Falling like a leaf, falling like a star
Finding a belief, falling where you are"

His expression smoothed out, face seemed so peaceful, breathing seemed too even out.
she gently placed her hand upon his chest to feel the heartbeats that would bring her peace as well, knowing her Doctor was finally relaxing. She could feel the dual beats slowing. Knowing she had calmed him down she smiled and decided to finish the song.

"Catch me, don't let me drop!
Love me, don't ever stop!
So close your eyes and let me kiss you
And while you sleep I will miss you"

Finally allowing the full impact of the words she was singing to hit her own heart, letting herself feel emotions she denied herself for his sake, denied so he wouldn't feel obligated to do anything for her. He was her Doctor and she would never leave him, she was his yet he didn't know.

"Oh I'm falling into you
This dream could come true
And it feels so good falling into you
Falling like a leaf, falling like a star, oh
Finding a belief, falling where you are"

Her eyes closed she let her emotions carry her through the song, let them run through her, her eyes watering under the lids, keeping her eyes closed she continued to sing, picturing those moments where she saw his guard down, the times where she stood in the console room without him seeing her, stood with the pain of wars and worlds plain to see before she would make herself known, seeing him hide the pain from her.

"Falling into you
Falling into you
Falling into you"

Letting her tears fall, shockingly she felt his hand cup her face, looking down at him she saw he had awoke, looking in his eyes she saw no barriers, he was letting her see him fully, not the manic hyperactive man he shows the world, but the true him the one who feels the pain of millennia upon his shoulders, he gently wiped her tears away before raising himself up, slowly surely, he came closer, his intention clear as he broke eye contact to briefly glance at her lips as she leaned down to meet him.
As their lips met their eyes closed, gently Rose opened her mouth slightly to draw her tongue across his lower lip, seeking entrance which he willingly gave, allowing her to explore his mouth, running her tongue along his, tasting him as he did her, withdrawing her tongue he followed with his.
Back and forth they went until the need for air finally became too much.

Breaking apart Rose finally spoke. "hey, want to tell me what that was about, not the kiss, but before that"

The doctor looked down, his eyes widened slightly at seeing what she had said. Deciding that having seen him like this, at his most vulnerable he owed it to her to tell her.
"The dreams never stop, it's always the same two dreams the first is we're running from the Cybermen always running nowhere to hide, by now even in the dream I know what's about to happen, Suddenly a bolt of red energy hits you and you fall and don't get up, you . . d . .die." By now he had tears in his eyes, but was refusing to let go, holding the pain in like he always does.
"The second is back when we closed the rift in Torchwood, I've told you before I see divergent points in time – well that was one. Had you not been able to hold onto the lever I saw what happened, you slipped and got pulled into the void, I . . . . I lost you forever, more than that, I was the only one who knew you existed, Falling into the void wiped you out of all possibilities, I can. . .can't lose you Rose, I Just can't."

By now the tears were falling, wrapping her arms around him she spoke "Doctor listen to me, I will always be here for you I promise, ok."
Holding onto him she started talking, opening up to him as he had her.
"I have dreams like that to Doctor, where you're lost to me, or worse, I see you kill. . . you can't regenerate, and I've lost you . . . not worried what face you wear, but I've lost YOU." At this she broke down as well. Holding him close helped.

Hearing her words finally unlocked something for the Doctor, he knew now that she was His Rose. Deciding that the kiss before didn't say it enough he looked to Rose before he spoke.
"In all my 900 years I've never met anybody like you, you've brought the best out in me, healed me of the man I was. I don't know what my future holds, but I can't have one without you, Rose Tyler,
I love you."

When the Doctor finished speaking he was looking straight into Rose's eyes, she couldn't believe he'd said it, Words she'd longed to hear but thought would never be spoken. She leaned in for another kiss, and just before her lips met his she whispered, "I love you too."
As the kiss ended, she went to get up to return to her room before the Doctor caught her wrist in a gentle grip.
"Please stay, sleep here tonight." He asked quietly. Getting back under the cover she lay next to him, his arms around her, hers holding him, together they slipped into sleep, neither tormented in their dreams the rest of the night.